In fall 2022 three different sections of Art & Design Lecturer Mary Roley’s ART 109: 3D Concepts class engaged in The Dürer Letters Project. Students were asked to study and create a three-dimensional version of the letters designed by 16th-century …
To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, this exhibition presents selections from the Native American Literature Collection in Special Collections, one of the largest such collections in the upper Midwest. The exhibition, curated by Special Collections graduate intern Olivia Hickner, will …
In November 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a U.S. cabinet Secretary, ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that included …
“Justice for All: The Legacy of Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson” features Chief Justice Abrahamson’s groundbreaking career, her impact on the Wisconsin court system, and her place in history through text and personal photos. It highlights causes she championed: women’s …
“UWM Creates,” a retrospective of student/alumni- and faculty-created artwork spanning nearly 65 years from UWM Special Collections and the UWM Union Art Gallery Art Collection, is on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the Golda Meir Library through …
This exhibit draws from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library to illustrate how the representation of wind on cartographic objects evolved as scientific knowledge of wind expanded.
“UWM Creates” is a retrospective of student/alumni- and faculty-created artwork spanning nearly 65 years from UWM Special Collections and the UWM Union Art Gallery Art Collection. These UWM artists used many different media to grapple with a wide variety of …
“Water is the first medicine of this world” — La Donna Brave Bull Allard, indigenous activist Water sustains life on our planet and intersects with all aspects of it. It serves as a constant muse for artists, an endless medium …
This November, the UWM Libraries’ Special Collections celebrates Native American Heritage Month with an exhibit of works by Native American women poets in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, located on the first floor west wing of the Golda Meir …
By Heidi Anoszko 1968 was a year of widespread upheaval, and the sphere of higher education was no different. Marginalized students and allies across the country began organizing coalitions and demonstrating for better representation on campus, culturally relevant courses, improved …
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